'The Birth of Venus, after Botticelli' (2008, from 'Pictures of Junk'), digital C-print, on view in 'Vik Muniz: Garbage Matters' at the Frist Center through Sept. 22.

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MiChelle Jones
| For The Tennessean

Since switching from sculpture to photography, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz has impressed critics and curators with his use of nonstandard materials to interpret famous photographs and fine art masterpieces. "Garbage Matters," a show of works from two of Muniz's series, "Pictures of Garbage" and "Pictures of Junk," is on view through Sept. 15 in the Frist Center's Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery.

Muniz was born in São Paolo and now lives and works in Brooklyn and Rio de Janeiro. He's created a chocolate syrup depiction of Jackson Pollock working on a drip painting and used sugar ...